To all the folks that are arguing how "just add more pumpjacks!" will make using more efficient recipes pointless, maybe it's time to consider turning biters back on? You're perspective is _way_ out of whack. :D Just "adding more pumpjacks" is a big deal in most game modes.

Try a marathon death ...

Draloric wrote: Fri Jul 19, 2019 7:14 pm 6. Makes an easy way to get Coal Liquification off of the ground, start with basic processing and get a bit of heavy oil going, then switch to coal liquification.

That's a cool side effect I hadn't even thought of! Good call out!

Some discussions on the Discord server led to an idea for dealing with the new player issues with oil that I think would work a lot better here. Original credit for the idea goes to Hexicube.

The idea is based on the following assumptions:

* The fundamental problem is that it is difficult for ...

This is normal. The counts are based on all of the processed ghosts from the oldest unexpired alert to the most recent. Generally this is the last 600ish ghosts processed that'll have active alerts. If you have more than 600 ghosts, then the ones with unexpired/active alerts will always be changing ...

... or to add the smallest possible "parts you can put together to build a train controller" into core ...


That is essentially my argument. The problem with other suggestions, and even with mine, tbh, is the approach is backwards. It's "I have a problem here is a solution" rather than "here is ...

Instead of allowing the station to specify a specific Train ID, I think a more flexible solution would be the ability to set conditional orders on the train itself. This has been suggested in the following threads:

That way is better.


The problem with this is that you are limited to ...

Curious. I've edited the original post title and reproduction steps to remove the library parts. Thanks for looking into it!

I can reliably reproduce this with the following steps:

* Take a blueprint of a train with wagon inventory limits set (the "bar" field in the blueprint json).
* Save the blueprint in your inventory.
* Save the game and reload the save.
* The "bar" field is missing and the deployed train has no ...

An independently configurable script output path would solve a lot of the issues involving mods with large output like FactorioMaps without requiring sacrificing Lua sandboxing. Perhaps that's an acceptable and hopefully easy to implement compromise?

One thing I truly hate about Destroyer capsules and despite them being awesome even pre-balance is the fact that by the time you deploy your max follower count of them - you literally have about a minute before they start exploding. Also, constant deployment with big pauses between the deploy take ...

Like others have mentioned I would also love it if we could have:
Presets for requests/trash slots, kind of like we have multiple quickbars; a way to define multiple sets of requests/trash and swap between them (I did wonder if that was what those mysterious +/- buttons, marked 9, were in the ...

FactorioBot wrote: Thu Apr 04, 2019 7:00 pm [*]Fixed that deleting mods would follow symlinks instead of just removing the symlink. (68975)

Ouch! I felt that one in my gut even though I was never bit by it. I believe that's one of the nastier bugs I've seen in these notes in some time!

Changes

Disabling station with train waiting in it doesn't force the train to departure anymore so it works as it worked in 0.16. It looked like a useful change for 0.17, but we can control train conditions by circuit network and there are some nice and simple use cases were ruined by trains ...

I'll shed a tear as I throw away the low and high tech 120 sci/s blueprints I just made, but it's fine. :D

I have but one request. Please make at least one infinite research require all of the science packs. It would be nice to have something to stress large bases that do bother to make the ...

Perhaps, but I'm trying to keep two things in mind.

First, any new mechanic should be as simple and generic as possible if it's likely to be accepted and implemented at all. This capability is generic enough that it can be used to implement all of those other suggestions, and many more. A generic ...

I've looked through the following threads, but I did not see this particular idea in them:

https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?f=80&t=21899
https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?f=80&t=30189

Many ideas center on controlling the train and have various implementation complications, but ...

First thought: I think labour of love fits better then fun with the machine.


The reason I chose not to nominate Factorio for this category is that I feel it is inappropriate for a game in early access. I also did not nominate any other early access game as well. For such games, continued ...

I love all of these, except the fuel efficiency. It made the choice between steel and electric furnaces an interesting and viable one. If you had petrochemical based power, then steel furnaces were in some cases better than electric, while electric becomes fully superior in solar/nuclear builds ...

I agree with a lot of folks here that it was good in 0.12 and that something between 0.13 and 0.15 made the lakes too small and uninteresting.

A man after my own heart, here! 0.12 map gen was by far the best, imo. Although, 0.13-0.15 got a lot better near the end. Shortly after the release of 0 ...

Very nice. The spillage thing is a good change, but there's that part of me that always thinks a lesson hard learned sticks the best.